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Nvidia confirms it is under scrutiny in EU, US and China
Nvidia confirms it is under scrutiny in EU, US and China
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Nvidia has confirmed that it was raided by the French competition authority in September and stated that it is under…
Startup Lemurian raises US$9 million to develop AI processor
Startup Lemurian raises US$9 million to develop AI processor
Business news |
Lemurian Labs Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.) has raised US$9 million seed funding to develop a computing platform tailored for AI…
Nvidia triples Q3 sales, confirms chip leadership
Nvidia triples Q3 sales, confirms chip leadership
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GPU-for-AI chip vendor Nvidia Corp. has reported a massive increase in sales in its financial results for the third quarter…
Sapeon launches X330 neural processor
Sapeon launches X330 neural processor
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Sapeon Inc. (Seongnam, South Korea) has launched its X330 AI accelerator chip for data centers implemented in TSMC’s 7nm manufacturing…

Global chip market to surge 20% in 2024, says IDC
Global chip market to surge 20% in 2024, says IDC
Market news |
International Data Corp. (San Mateo, Calif.) has raised its forecasts for the global chip market in 2023 and 2024 but kept growth predictions largely unchanged maintaining the view that 2024…
Microsoft unveils own-designed processors
Microsoft unveils own-designed processors
Technology News |
As expected, Microsoft has announced it has developed its own AI processor but provided almost no details. The reveal took place at the Microsoft Ignite developers’ conference alongside that of…
Renesas told to stop saying US has banned Quectel IoT modules
Renesas told to stop saying US has banned Quectel IoT modules
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Quectel Wireless Solutions Co. Ltd. (Shanghai, China), a vendor of wireless IoT products, has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Renesas Electronics Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) demanding it stop saying that Quectel…
China reports breakthrough analog optoelectronic processor for visual AI
China reports breakthrough analog optoelectronic processor for visual AI
Technology News |
Researchers at Tsinghua University Beijing have reported an all-analog optoelectronic chip aimed at visual processing that they claim is 3,000 times faster than conventional electronic processors. The system is named…
This is your AI copilot speaking
This is your AI copilot speaking
Technology News |
MIT’s copilot system can set the stage for a new wave of AI innovation MIT scientists have developed a deep learning system, Air-Guardian, designed to work…
Qualcomm launches Nuvia-designed, AI-capable PC processor
Qualcomm launches Nuvia-designed, AI-capable PC processor
Technology News |
Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon X Elite claiming it is the most powerful and efficient processor for PCs capable of running artificial intelligence applications. The Arm-compatible 12-core processor is implemented…
SiFive lays off 20% of staff, re-aligns business
SiFive lays off 20% of staff, re-aligns business
Business news |
RISC-V processor architecture pioneer SiFive Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has laid off about 20 percent of its staff and is “re-aligning” its business. Reportedly the 20 percent…
Startup antenna specialist plans for 300 jobs in UK
Startup antenna specialist plans for 300 jobs in UK
Business news |
Antenna startup Novocomms Ltd. (Birmingham, England) has announced plans for growth over the next five years with the potential to create 300 jobs in Birmingham. The company’s growth plan includes…
Chiplets to quantum: Joe Barry on Analog’s disruptive future
Chiplets to quantum: Joe Barry on Analog’s disruptive future
Interviews |
eeNews Europe interviewed Joe Barry, vice president for systems and technology at the Cloud and Communications business unit of Analog Devices, to ask about trends in the industry and implications…
Vodafone fast-tracks Arm-based chipsets for Open RAN
Vodafone fast-tracks Arm-based chipsets for Open RAN
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Mobile phone service provider Vodafone has announced it is speeding up the development of chipsets based on the Arm architecture for use in Open Radio Access Networks (Open RAN). At…
Report: Microsoft set to reveal own AI chip
Report: Microsoft set to reveal own AI chip
Technology News |
Microsoft is preparing to unveil its own chip designed for artificial intelligence processing at its Ignite developers’ conference, according to The Information. And the chip could lean on AMD GPU…
IEDM: Micron to present DRAM-like non-volatile memory for AI
IEDM: Micron to present DRAM-like non-volatile memory for AI
Technology News |
A paper on a non-volatile ferroelectric memory developed at Micron is scheduled for this year’s International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in December. A precis of the paper claims the stacked…
Intel plans to IPO its FPGA business
Intel plans to IPO its FPGA business
Business news |
Chip company Intel has announced a plan to take its programmable solutions group (PSG) public via an IPO. Initially, PSG will operate as a wholly-owned but separate business from January…
SK spin-off Sapeon raises funds for neural processors
SK spin-off Sapeon raises funds for neural processors
Business news |
Sapeon Inc. (Seongnam, South Korea) has raised 60 billion won (about US$44 million) in a Series A funding round that values the company at 500 billion won (about US$370 million).
Nvidia comes under European anti-competitive scrutiny
Nvidia comes under European anti-competitive scrutiny
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The European Union and the French government are separately investigating potential anticompetitive behaviour by Nvidia in the supply of artificial intelligence technology, according to reports. The European Union is informally…
Nvidia, SEEQC partner to develop quantum-GPU interface
Nvidia, SEEQC partner to develop quantum-GPU interface
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Quantum computer startup SEEQC (Elmsford, New York) is partnering with Nvidia to develop an all-digital low-latency chip-to-chip interface between any quantum computing system and GPU chips. When completed the interface…
GlobalFoundries secures next 10-year DoD contract
GlobalFoundries secures next 10-year DoD contract
Business news |
GlobalFoundries Inc. (Malta, NY) has been awarded a 10-year contract by the US Department of Defense with an upper limit of US$3.1 billion. The contract is intended to provide the…
Nvidia set to become top chip company this year
Nvidia set to become top chip company this year
Market news |
Nvidia is set to overtake Intel and Samsung and become the top-ranked semiconductor company in 2023, according to analysis firm Semiconductor Intelligence. Semiconductor Intelligence (SC-IQ) estimates Nvidia’s total 2023 revenue…
Let cameras defeat AI fakes, says lidar maker
Let cameras defeat AI fakes, says lidar maker
Feature articles |
Flash lidar vendor PreAct Technologies Inc. (Portland, Oregon) has said that advances in computer vision will enable cameras and computers to detect AI-generated content. Amongst other things the lidar maker…
Microchip supplies memBrain for Korean analog edge AI
Microchip supplies memBrain for Korean analog edge AI
Partners |
Microcontroller and mixed-signal chip company Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.) has teamed up with Intelligent Hardware Korea (IHWK) to develop an analog compute platform for edge AI/ML inferencing. Intelligent Hardware…
Nvidia backs Enfabrica’s US$125 million Series B
Nvidia backs Enfabrica’s US$125 million Series B
Technology News |
Networking chip startup Enfabrica Corp. (Mountain View, Calif.) has raised US$125 million in a round of venture capital with GPU chip giant Nvidia joining in as a strategic investor, according…
Intel lists winners in London startup accelerator program
Intel lists winners in London startup accelerator program
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Intel Corp. has announced 10 startups that will join a 12-week, London-based accelerator program to help the companies raise funds and make connections called Intel Ignite. The winners include several…
InnoLight 400G/800G optical transceivers aimed at AI interconnect
InnoLight 400G/800G optical transceivers aimed at AI interconnect
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China’s InnoLight Technology (Suzhou) Ltd.is developing 400G/800G optical transceivers based on the PH18M silicon photonics manufacturing process of foundry Tower Semiconductor Ltd. (Migdael Haemek, Israel). The partnership is aiming to…
DDR5 DRAM reaches 32Gbit capacity
DDR5 DRAM reaches 32Gbit capacity
New Products |
Samsung has developed a 32Gbit DRAM in the DDR5 format made using 12nm manufacturing process technology. Samsung began mass production of a 12nm 16Gbit DDR5 DRAM in May 2023. It…


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